Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb976c45bdd386c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 08:48:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8b4687c603a79e229820cc2eef77863e SHA-1: dc6409f7862e81c8117e75c06f5547ce64febba1 SHA-256: bb976c45bdd386c993830ad84c7aade6ae812e3e206716a9d8d7750fe162f147
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations used for hosting malicious files. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a pattern of using disposable or compromised hosting for link farms, likely to obscure the ultimate destination or to distribute further payloads. No scripts were extracted, but the extensive use of external links suggests a phishing or redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=electrical+machines+2+textbook PDF link annotation
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160737e1b94b05---wufebepubolovitaxaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kipia-nn.ru/userfiles/file/13434182474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mim2010.ru/userfiles/file/6026431204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapawan15.com/shop/fck_file/file/nopunadasidexer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4077ce3cdd---31986906763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istihdamhaberleri.com/upload/ckfinder/files/vutelegobaxope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kdwatch.net/upload/files/2021082104503363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intimatehotelpattaya.com/image/upload/File/buzax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/zaduxadokanuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rklatex.com/userfiles/file/najilizetabaliwijijado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikosdimos.gr/userfiles/file/88478379590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vagtteam.dk/userfiles/Files/59191858337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15881588.com/ckupload/files/vasixefidal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac576cc6cd---sabusaxavodopuzavadizosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a40fb92bb4---26052883209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21775decbc4781ff526a574c74a3df65/2153889799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16113e4291ae1a---zekodozafidofeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/lupofow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timandlor.com/userfiles/file/8988326477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mifjevtncmk17a6gs5ktrk32o1/bexisezuzolusaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6d0c8b52b9---27618656052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c92007ebc28---1916049881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46872391497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madang.eu/f_pds/fck/file/90140225465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.125.49/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210818_192300.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d276.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD276 17944 bytes
SHA-256: 6ead2e1f7aff86a96188fcc4d1b7dcebd2d13d427fe21baf2dde5a38f6f86517
font_01_sfnt_off0001005a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1005A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011871.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11871 10932 bytes
SHA-256: ec8527e94141f47af3ca829bc553c49175b17725cd909b4b2e8780ff81468f7b